Steven Soderbergh, of All People, Thinks Cellphones Are “The Worst Thing Ever to Happen to Movies”


Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, who has directed no less than two films on iPhones in the past decade, took what could be described as an about-face on the subject, who hates cellphones for film. in a new interview with Diversity About his upcoming Max mini-series, full circle, In which he either ignores the irony of the statement or, more likely, doesn’t care, Soderbergh declares, “Cellphones are the worst thing that’s ever happened to movies.” It’s like T-Pain hates autotune.

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However, the director of such shot-on-iPhone classics Mad And high flying bird, and which has been a booster for shooting movies on consumer-grade electronics since 2017, has no problem making cinema on the same device we use to Google “What does ‘Livvy rizzed up Baby Gronk’ mean?” Is?” Instead, Soderbergh denounced their “horrible” prominence in his series’ narrative. He even threatened to put her in the dock full circle “Insert to show” all the phones and screens in our show one after the other, so you can have them all in one place. Simply put, there are way too many shots in movies and television today of people getting their sweet, sweet blue light fix every second frame by piling up their glass rectangle.

Unsurprisingly, Soderbergh’s hatred of cellphones made shooting his period piece more enjoyable, calling it “one of the pleasures of doing it”. the nick [and] no sudden movements,Although his reasoning is correct. “I guess you could talk to a hundred storytellers, and they’d all tell you the same thing,” he said. “It’s so hard to create drama when everyone can hold onto everyone all the time. It’s not as fun as the old days when the phone rang, and you didn’t know who was calling. I love that.” Remember from


on 2018 release MadSoderbergh described shooting his film on the iPhone as “futuristic”.

“A lot of people have a philosophical constraint about the size of the capture device,” Soderbergh explained. indiewire In 2018. I don’t have that problem. I look back on it potentially as one of the most liberating experiences I’ve ever had as a filmmaker and one that I continue to have. What I felt moment by moment was so important that it was a new chapter for me.

Steven Soderbergh’s latest project, full circleArrives on Max on July 13.

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